EV charging access in Texas towns

Texas has 4.2 public charging ports per 10,000 residents. We ranked 307 towns of 5,000+ people by ports per resident, and by how many licensed electrical and HVAC contractors are based there.

Most public charging ports per 10,000 residents

#	Town	Population	Ports per 10k	Public ports	Licensed installers
1	Luling	5,752	66.1	38 (32 DC fast)	2
2	Hillsboro	8,878	63.1	56 (46 DC fast)	7
3	Brookshire	5,782	39.8	23 (12 DC fast)	17
4	Wharton	8,755	35.4	31 (30 DC fast)	4
5	Fort Stockton	8,147	34.4	28 (12 DC fast)	4
6	Alpine	6,039	33.1	20 (8 DC fast)	7
7	Bastrop	12,720	33.0	42 (38 DC fast)	24
8	Terrell	22,977	32.2	74 (50 DC fast)	19
9	Navasota	9,471	26.4	25 (17 DC fast)	10
10	Decatur	8,266	25.4	21 (19 DC fast)	13
11	Childress	5,683	24.6	14 (8 DC fast)	3
12	Addison	17,257	23.8	41 (16 DC fast)	6
13	Horseshoe Bay	5,218	23.0	12	6
14	Katy	27,741	22.0	61 (56 DC fast)	109
15	Vernon	9,728	21.6	21 (16 DC fast)	3
16	Fredericksburg	11,766	18.7	22 (12 DC fast)	31
17	Austin	993,588	18.3	1818 (293 DC fast)	331
18	Ennis	24,753	17.0	42 (38 DC fast)	27
19	Grapevine	51,320	16.6	85 (37 DC fast)	9
20	Robstown	10,383	16.4	17 (17 DC fast)	7
21	Center	5,231	15.3	8 (4 DC fast)	6
22	Webster	12,548	15.1	19 (18 DC fast)	5
23	Carthage	6,653	15.0	10 (9 DC fast)	5
24	Giddings	5,324	15.0	8 (8 DC fast)	15
25	Livingston	5,562	14.4	8 (8 DC fast)	10

Charging deserts: larger towns with the fewest ports per resident

Towns of 25,000+ residents. Fewer public ports makes a home charger more valuable: see EV charger rebates for your zip.

#	Town	Population	Ports per 10k	Public ports	Licensed installers
1	Rosenberg	42,571	0.0	0	13
2	Anna	31,986	0.0	0	8
3	Converse	31,400	0.0	0	13
4	Fate	27,467	0.0	0	3
5	Pharr	81,142	0.2	2 (1 DC fast)	22
6	Port Arthur	55,799	0.2	1	7
7	Wylie	62,954	0.3	2 (2 DC fast)	27
8	Alvin	29,869	0.3	1	26
9	Desoto	56,711	0.4	2 (1 DC fast)	15
10	Copperas Cove	39,627	0.5	2	9
11	Mission	88,574	0.6	5 (4 DC fast)	73
12	Laredo	261,260	0.8	22 (18 DC fast)	61
13	Cibolo	37,816	0.8	3	3
14	Princeton	37,019	0.8	3	10
15	Odessa	119,748	0.9	11 (9 DC fast)	95
16	Hutto	42,661	0.9	4	32
17	Pasadena	149,617	1.0	15 (2 DC fast)	53
18	Coppell	41,785	1.0	4	3
19	Friendswood	41,291	1.0	4	21
20	Garland	250,431	1.2	29 (5 DC fast)	87
21	Killeen	160,616	1.2	19 (4 DC fast)	26
22	Edinburg	108,733	1.2	13 (11 DC fast)	34
23	Mansfield	80,803	1.2	10	33
24	Flower Mound	79,990	1.4	11	12
25	Weatherford	39,397	1.5	6 (4 DC fast)	66

Most licensed installers per 10,000 residents

#	Town	Population	Installers per 10k	Public ports	Licensed installers
1	Magnolia	6,506	78.4	0	51
2	Willis	7,222	45.7	6 (6 DC fast)	33
3	Richmond	13,305	40.6	8 (8 DC fast)	54
4	Tomball	15,152	39.6	12	60
5	Katy	27,741	39.3	61 (56 DC fast)	109
6	Humble	16,561	36.2	17 (9 DC fast)	60
7	Seminole	7,386	32.5	0	24
8	Granbury	12,934	30.2	11 (2 DC fast)	39
9	Lampasas	7,936	30.2	0	24
10	Cleveland	9,757	29.7	0	29
11	Brookshire	5,782	29.4	23 (12 DC fast)	17
12	Alvarado	7,312	28.7	2	21
13	Giddings	5,324	28.2	8 (8 DC fast)	15
14	Argyle	6,294	27.0	0	17
15	Fredericksburg	11,766	26.3	22 (12 DC fast)	31
16	Breckenridge	5,190	25.0	2 (2 DC fast)	13
17	Marble Falls	9,413	24.4	3	23
18	Mabank	7,021	24.2	0	17
19	Jarrell	5,151	23.3	0	12
20	Buda	16,090	22.4	10 (4 DC fast)	36
21	Dripping Springs	10,165	21.6	14 (8 DC fast)	22
22	Justin	6,197	21.0	0	13
23	Bulverde	7,198	20.8	0	15
24	Helotes	10,223	20.5	0	21
25	Iowa Park	6,583	19.7	0	13

Method and sources

Charging ports: open public Level 2 and DC fast ports listed by the U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center, placed inside municipal boundaries (Census TIGER) by each station's coordinates. A 0 means no public port is listed for that municipality; private, workplace-only and planned chargers are not counted.
Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates for the municipality.
Installers: contractors whose state license record lists a business address in the town or its zip codes (how we use license data).
Updated 2026-10-11. Journalists and researchers may cite these figures with a link to this page.